Irwin and White to Star in Off-B'way's Fiction

Tom Irwin and Julie White will star in the Roundabout Theatre Company mounting of Steven Dietz's Fiction off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre. Emily Bergl will also appear in the David Warren-helmed production, which will run from June 30 through September 12.

Fiction is a drama about married writers Linda White and Michael Irwin, a couple who have only told the truth about themselves and each other in their private journals. Forced to share their most guarded secrets, the truth is revealed and the life they've known is shattered forever.

Irwin has appeared on Broadway in For Better or Worse and My Thing Of Love. His off-Broadway credits include Balm in Gilead, New England and Space. He has also been involved in over 50 Steppenwolf productions as an actor or director and appeared with Madonna in Up for Grabs in the West End. Irwin was a series regular on My Life and Times and My So-Called Life.

White appeared on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles. Her off-Broadway credits include Spike Heels, The Stick Wife, Over Texas, Just Say No, Lucky Stiff, The Family of Mann, Dinner With Friends, Barbra's Wedding and Bad Dates. She's probably best known for playing the wacky neighbor Nadine on ABC's Grace Under Fire and Mitzi Dalton Huntley, the evil regional director of Kroehner Funeral Home, on HBO's Six Feet Under.

Bergl, who is currently starring in the Vineyard Theatre production of Where Do We Live, appeared on Broadway in The Lion In Winter. She was featured off-Broadway in Old Money. Her regional theater credits include The Country, Our Town, Proof, The School for Wives, Romeo and Juliet, Once In A Lifetime and The Skin of Our Teeth.

Fiction, which premiered this spring at New Jersey's McCarter Theater, is scheduled to officially open off-Broadway on July 25.